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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Schools, colleges and universities all over the world are installing Moodle, but many educators aren’t making much use of it. With so many features, it can be a hassle to learn – and with teachers under so much pressure day-to-day, they cannot devote much time to recreating all their lessons from scratch.This book provides the quickest way for teachers and trainers to get up and running with Moodle, by turning their familiar teaching materials into a Moodle e-learning course.This book shows how to bring your existing notes, worksheets, resources and lesson plans into Moodle quickly and easily. Instead of exploring every feature of Moodle, the book focuses on getting you started immediately – you will be turning your existing materials into Moodle courses right from the start.The book begins by showing how to turn your teaching schedule into a Moodle course, with the correct number of topics and weeks. You will then see how to convert your resources – documents, slideshows, and worksheets, into Moodle. You will learn how to format them in a way that means students will be able to read them, and along the way plenty of shortcuts to speed up the process.By the end of Chapter 3, you will already have a Moodle course that contains your learning resources in a presentable way. But the book doesn’t end there– you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and video. Throughout the book, the focus is on getting results fast – moving teaching material online so that lessons become more effective for students, and less work for you.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – specifying a course enrollment key


  1. Click on Users in your course Settings block and then click on Enrollment methods:

  2. Enable the Self enrolment (Student) method by poking it in the eye (make sure the eye is open):

  3. Click on the Self enrolment (Student) edit icon (the hand holding the pencil) to open the Self enrolment configuration page:

  4. Most of the settings on this page are self-explanatory (do you remember how to find help on a particular setting?) but make sure you have Allow self enrolments set to Yes and have specified an enrolment password. You can make the password as simple or as complicated as you wish:

  5. When you're finished, scroll to the bottom of the page and press the Save changes button.

  6. That's it, you're done!

What just happened?

We've just specified an enrollment key for our courses. How you hand that key out to your students is entirely up to you. When it is time to get my students enrolled on my courses I usually write the key on the whiteboard. After a week...